The New Era is Digital Hiring

The New Era is Digital Hiring

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Allan Porras
Allan Porras Jul 22 2019 • 3 min read
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We know that people are changing and people have new priorities and ways to make the life more easy, recently bigger companies as Google, Amazon and Sykes are implementing new hiring process using AI, social media and blockchain. This emerging technologies allow to companies reduce processes a half and increase productivity and ROI.

Amazon is the pioneer of digital hiring implementing hiring software and chatbots, this technologies can filter efficiently inclusive in the first interview validating skills and experience with Artificial Intelligence.

What if you could look into the future and know what to expect? So let’s summarize a few exciting developments in the recruiting arena. You can source what you need to optimize your process now and position yourself to enjoy other features the moment you get access to them.

What is Digital Hiring and Which are benefits?

Digital recruitment is the process of leveraging technology to the source, attract, assess, select and hire candidates for vacant positions. This includes leveraging job boards, career websites, mobile recruiting, online assessments, and social recruiting. While most companies these days use at least one of the aforementioned tactics, they are still a long way from being classified as a digital strategy.

Using social media more effectively

Today, no one needs to be convinced that social media is an important recruitment channel. From LinkedIn to Facebook groups, even Twitter and Instagram, recruiters are active on social media, posting job ads. But which ones are the most effective? If you’re not tracking your ads, you have no way of knowing.

Using Artificial Intelligence and Chatbots

Just reducing time and hiring efforts, companies can use this resources to improve real problems in the organizations,Chatbots and AI are used in companies as PepsiCo and L’Oreal to improve process. Unlike a human recruiter, Chatbots can make thousands of calls a day, requires no sleep or breaks, and can do in one day what might take a human several weeks. Once completed, she sends recommendations on to the hiring manager for further review. If there’s a problem with the recommendations, hiring managers can alter the questions Chatbot asks to yield better results.

Applicant personality

It is essential for the HR professionals to know about the personality of a potential candidate in order to see how well the candidate can fit into organization culture and policy. Social networking sites such as Facebook, linkedIn, twitter help in obtaining insight details about the applicant professional and personal lifestyle. It is a huge benefit for the companies when candidate use digital CV for a job as it consists of details about the individual precisely. It saves money and time of both the candidate and HR as candidates also get a chance to see company work culture through social networking sites.

Efficiency

Digital hiring is a time saver which improves hiring efficiency drastically. Internet never sleeps hence, instant response to job offer is quite possible. Not just speed it actually offers great services to one who relies on online hiring.

If you’ll put great efforts and go deep in your digital recruitment tool box then one can easily carry out information about previous placements and get much better result by comparing.

Social media hub allow you to track the status of the application and make task bit easier for the HR department. Progress can be monitored and screened from one place with ease.


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